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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

    $0.01

    per hour

    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Editions & Modules
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $0.22
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $149.00
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $0.038
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $25.21
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $0.02
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $13.27
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (transient)
    starting at $0.01
    per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsIBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.
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    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    We found it necessary to look at some alternatives to our normal cloud and server services. For the larger temorary projects, and trouble shooting issues we found IBM Cloud was suitable.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    We have not necessarily used any other products, we may be using them in our junior companies or our sub-workplaces but there's nothing that I know off so far.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Have used it because of previous IBM partership, and also because of the need to test Linux on Z series.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers offer more customization options than Amazon EC2, with the ability to select from a range of operating systems, storage types, and network configurations. IBM also provides a wide range of tools and services to help manage and optimize your virtual …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    We decided to make use of IBM Virtual Cloud Servers because we were offered IBM Credits and assistance for set up. Our experience was unfortunately negative and in particular, we feel that IBM Cloud Virtual Servers would benefit from having more personnel available to provide …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Overall, IBM is more expensive, but provides a lot of support for these cloud virtual servers as well as makes it very easy to configure these servers to the desired needs. The usability of IBM is sometimes not as good as others, but the availability of these servers is fairly …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    IBM virtual server is the most trusted brand to get good supports and high productivity. We used it for the most scalable servers to use and meet the needs. It provides scalability, security all in a single place to backup and use and store your data without any worry.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    I think both IBM Cloud Virtual Servers and Google Compute Engine are good products. Each works the best when they are being used with other solutions in their respective clouds. When products in each ecosystem are used in conjunction, they work really well. When working with …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    We have our running cloud projects hosted on Amazon EC2 and our primary option is always amazon because the team are more experienced with AWS, now we are looking into other options in the market
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    The selection of Virtual servers is easy and deployments and upgrades are easy to handle compared to the IBM cloud. Firstly UI is very easy and helps us to choose and customize fast without delay in critical times.AWS has a lot of varieties in instances we can choose based on …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    IBM Power Virtual server offers machines certified by SAP. This means that SAP HANA runs perfectly without bottlenecks due to underpowered hardware.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    This is our first foray into the Virtual Servers world, so I cannot give an accurate comparison to any other services yet.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    AWS ec2 instance sometimes stops accidentally without any cloud watch alarms and sometimes instance not reachable. I used to connect with support for it but [it] never got resolved. IBM Cloud [Virtual Servers] has dedicated support with free support options and direct call …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Cloudflare is awesome for [a] global edge -- accelerate end-user accessibility. We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers as the backend service layer.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is much more appropriate than IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers as a remote development machine, as it is only being billed for a third of the day. However, it has fewer options (such as not having access to the T4 GPU).

    Compared to IBM Watson Machine …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Not used others to provide a comparison, but will be delighted to provide once others are used.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    They are equally in power with the competitor, with some give or takes, easy to use and very flexible.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    We used to have our virtual machines at a contender, however, IBMs item range is substantially more practical which expanded our ROI. When I started using IBM for all my hosting solutions, I became a really big fan. They have well-built security and other features.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    8.7
    88 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.081 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.676 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.664 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.573 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.284 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.078 Ratings
    Operating system support8.884 Ratings
    Security controls9.178 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (89 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)